Augmented Reality Insects

Participants: 8 students age 13, 14 with hearing impairments from Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education

Venue: RAMM, Exeter

Museum Objects: Insect collections from the ‘Fly on the Wall’ Gallery

Aims of activity: Using the museum objects as the initial inspiration, the aim of the sessions was for the young people to explore Augmented Reality, and create their own trigger images and creative artwork.

Activity: The young people looked at insect specimens in RAMM’s fly on the wall gallery and chose objects to draw and photograph. From their drawings they then each designed a both, graphic black and white sticker as a trigger image for their Augmented Reality pieces. Back at school the following day, the young people created a piece of artwork about their chosen insect which would be displayed when their trigger image was scanned with the Augmented Reality app Aurasma. Their creative pieces were made using drawing, photography and animation using drawn and cut out images and found objects.